Combined collar-button and scarf-holder



(No Model.)

W. J. DUNN. COMBINED COLLAR BUTTON AND SCAR]? HOLDER. No. 311,881. Patented Feb. 10,1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed August 3, 1833.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W'ILLrAM J. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ohicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Collar-Button and Scarf- Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of collar-buttons in which the button is provided with means for holding down a neckscarf.

Heretofore a collar-button has been pro vided with a variety of attachments for such purpose-as, for example, a pin has been attached to the rear side of the button and extended radially from the periphery thereof, while in another instance a set of pins have been attached to the shank of a separable button and arranged coincident with the axis of the shank. In the former instance the scarf cannot be caught upon the pin as readily as might be desired, since the pin will lie too close to the shirt-bosom, and it is, moveover, liable tocatch in the shirt while the button is being passed through the button-hole. In the second-named instance the pins fail to hold the scarf close to the button and shirt, and hence, during wear, the scarf or tie is apt to slip off the pins, or to stand out from the shirt, should its lower portion be pushed or worked up during wear.

It is the object of my invention to overcome such defects, and to provide a collar-button with novel means for efficiently engaging and holding a scarf or tie down and against the shirt-bosom, and at the same time to allow the button being readily passed through a button hole.

To such end my invention consists in a collarbutton provided with one or more pointed hooks rigid with the head of the button, and bent to extend over the face thereof, as here inafter fully described and claimed, and illus trated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a collanbutton provided with a hook in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is alike view of a separable button provided with a hook. Fig. 3 illustrates a collar-button provided with two hooks.

Patent No. 311,881, dated February 10, 1885.

(No model.)

Referring by letter to the annexed drawings, A in the several figures denotes a col lar-button of ordinary or suitable construction, Fig. 3 being designed to represent a separable button'that is, one in which the head is detachably secured to the shank B in any well-known or preferred waywhile in the remaining figures the head of the button is made rigid with the shank. The hook 0, made pointed at one end, is secured at its other end to the head of the button in any suitable way, so as to be rigid therewith. As, for example, if the stud is of metal, it can be soldered onto the same, or if the button-is of ivory a hole can be drilled in the latter, and the shank end of the hook held thereon by some cement packing. This hook rises from the face of the button, and then extends over the face thereof substantially parallel therewith, as shown, and is pointed at its free end so as to readily engage a neck scarf or tie.

if desired, twoor more of these hooks can be employed, as in Fig. 3. Buttons can be pro vided with these hooks at a small expense, and it will be seen that while passing them through a button-hole there will be no liability of the hook catching in the fabric. After the but ton has been inserted in the buttoirhole in the neck portion of a shirt and the collar and necktie put on as usual, the tie can be readily caught by the hook, since the latter stands out from the button, and will not only be held down by the same, but will also be held close to the shirt; also, the hook being pointed, it will readily enter any kind of tie.

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A collar-button provided with one or more pointed hooks, G, secured to the head of the button, and extending over the face of the button in a plane substantially parallel with the said face, substantially as described.

\VILLIAM J. DUNN.

Vitnesses:

W. W. ELLIOTT, Guns. G. PAGE.

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